My personal beef is when the writer cannot use I/me correctly. As in "He gave a report to Peter and I". No, he gave it to Peter and me.

That one gets me as well. Also "me an him".

I am a programmer, but during the early stages of the 2001 depression (2003 through 2006), I wound up having to teach high school math for a few years. I was required to take some courses in order to maintain the temporary license I was granted. I was amazed by the total lack of understanding of proper English usage by several individuals in the classes -- and these were the people that would be teaching our children!

Here is another one, albeit on a more sophisticated level -- "the data is". The word "data" is plural so it should be "the data are".

Have you seen Mt Hurl's grammar here? It's embarrassing. He's a teacher, so he claims.

He is not a journalist with a wide circulation. They should be setting a good example. That was the point of my starting this thread. If Mr. Hurl is a teacher with poor grammar, that is very unfortunate as well.

Slow day when the grammar discussion is more interesting than the football talk.

Personally, I'm okay treating "data" as a collective noun. Yes, I know in Latin it's the plural for datum, but really as an English word it's mostly used in a collective sense, which means treating it as a singular noun is natural. Most publishers now accept it as a singular noun. When we talk about data and number is important, we tend to use the phrase "data point" or "data points," while the Latin singular of data (datum) is almost never used in ordinary discourse.

I won't call anyone out, but the phrase I read here that really offends my grammatical sensibilities is "would of." When I'm feeling particularly magnanimous I guess I can regard it as a quaint and charming New Englanderism, but really do we not know that "would of" is just bad pronounciation of the conditional verb phrase "would have" and that the phrase "would of" makes as much sense as "would in" or "would at" or any other combination of the auxiliary verb "would" and a preposition?

Have you seen Mt Hurl's grammar here? It's embarrassing. He's a teacher, so he claims.

He is not a journalist with a wide circulation. They should be setting a good example. That was the point of my starting this thread. If Mr. Hurl is a teacher with poor grammar, that is very unfortunate as well.

SLGDEV/sheldong/sheldonlg

Well, at least Mt Hurl teaches Home Ec and doesn't teach English. That we can all be thankful for.

Do I have to remind you that a preposition is a word you should never end a sentence with?

Slow day when the grammar discussion is more interesting than the football talk.

Personally, I'm okay treating "data" as a collective noun. Yes, I know in Latin it's the plural for datum, but really as an English word it's mostly used in a collective sense, which means treating it as a singular noun is natural. Most publishers now accept it as a singular noun. When we talk about data and number is important, we tend to use the phrase "data point" or "data points," while the Latin singular of data (datum) is almost never used in ordinary discourse.

I won't call anyone out, but the phrase I read here that really offends my grammatical sensibilities is "would of." When I'm feeling particularly magnanimous I guess I can regard it as a quaint and charming New Englanderism, but really do we not know that "would of" is just bad pronounciation of the conditional verb phrase "would have" and that the phrase "would of" makes as much sense as "would in" or "would at" or any other combination of the auxiliary verb "would" and a preposition?

I attribute this phenomenon to the gradual change in society. Many people neither read nor write the written word in proper form any longer. If you don't see it written correctly you may well rely on the sound of the phrase when needing to compose a thought. "Would of" sounds a lot like "would have".

Texting is another contributing factor to the decline of proper language usage.

I realize that a lot of people on the board will find this minutiae insignificant, but as you say, it's a looong way to next season.

Have you seen Mt Hurl's grammar here? It's embarrassing. He's a teacher, so he claims.

He is not a journalist with a wide circulation. They should be setting a good example. That was the point of my starting this thread. If Mr. Hurl is a teacher with poor grammar, that is very unfortunate as well.

SLGDEV/sheldong/sheldonlg

Well, at least Mt Hurl teaches Home Ec and doesn't teach English. That we can all be thankful for.

Do I have to remind you that a preposition is a word you should never end a sentence with?

Have you seen Mt Hurl's grammar here? It's embarrassing. He's a teacher, so he claims.

He is not a journalist with a wide circulation. They should be setting a good example. That was the point of my starting this thread. If Mr. Hurl is a teacher with poor grammar, that is very unfortunate as well.

SLGDEV/sheldong/sheldonlg

Well, at least Mt Hurl teaches Home Ec and doesn't teach English. That we can all be thankful for.

Do I have to remind you that a preposition is a word you should never end a sentence with?

Nicely done above.

Nicely done? LOL

I saw it and didn't feel like adding another word. I am not getting paid to print things here so I truly don't care if I start or end a sentence with a preposition.

We have people here who don't know basic words, their uses, conjunctions, possessive, plurals, etc.

You and your fellow Brady Ball Washer ain't got nothing.

Not how I just used "ain't" for effect. LMAO

Relax.

Prolate made a joke by correcting your error with one of his own (intentionally). Mine did the same, though not as well.